Left side features a black-and-white cover with the title "Learning to Let Go and Grow" and a small photo of a woman. Right side shows a flat lay of miscellaneous small objects, including a bowl with a cartoon character, a keychain frame with a photo, shells, stones, and decorative items, with the word "kelp" in the upper left corner and "January 2024" handwritten at the bottom.

january 2024

the first edition of ‘kelpmag’

a theme of healing, staying inside and romanticizing what is around me

Watercolor painting of multiple koi fish on the left side and a sprig of lavender flowers on the right side, with small animated characters below the lavender.

A page divided into four parts: the top left has colorful watercolor flowers with labels 'FROM:' and 'TO:'; the bottom left features a pink watercolor background with smiley faces and the same labels; the top right displays a textured green watercolor background; the bottom right has a blue sticky note with handwritten text, 'adversive spirit is inimical to an inquisitive one.'

A hand-drawn collage with watercolor backgrounds including orange, green, and pink hues. The left side features a quote about the sky on a paper with typed text that reads, "It's beautiful, isn’t it?" she said as I got closer. I asked what she was referring to. "The color of the sky," she said." The right side includes a Valentine's Day greeting in a blue cloud-shaped speech bubble with handwritten text, and a photograph of two cats sitting on a table with a coffee mug, partly overlapped by a pink and red illustration of a dog's and an eye's sketches with the caption "YOU'RE IN MY EYES... APPLES." in red and black handwriting.

featured cut-out valentines for the next month

A collage of two abstract watercolor paintings. The left side features colorful, textured blocks of text that say 'Cut Me Out' on a blue and gray background. The right side depicts a pink, orange, and yellow sky with stylized rays of sunshine over green and blue grass.

don’t worry- I included instructions !!!

sounds and sights from my room

A children's illustrated page with drawings and text. The left side features a sketch of two women labeled 'roomies,' a blue car labeled 'hank,' two colored circles labeled 'N' and '7' with the text 'stand clear,' a red band with musical notes labeled 'birdland big band,' and a gray radiator with the sound 'clink clink.' The right side displays a paragraph of printed text with a purple highlighted section.

A split image showing two different scenes. The left side features a window with green curtains and a small pink decorative item with a sticker that says "Go Green Ticket" and a smaller pink heart sticker. The right side displays a pattern of colorful, stylized lizard illustrations on a black background.

jennifer egan is one of my favorite authors ^^^

titled ‘my thoughts reserved for you’

Colorful doodles of various abstract characters and shapes with a poem about making peace with inner thoughts and expressing feelings.

exploring where to put the unique thoughts i would normally tell one certain person after going separate ways

xoxoxox